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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

1.

FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

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SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

FROM THE PHOCÆANS.

POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.

POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.

FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.

FROM DRY STICKS.

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HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

I.

I. A FRIEND TO THEOCRITOS IN EGYPT.

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III.

IV.

IV. TO THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

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VI.

VII.

VIII.

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IX. A FOREIGN RULER.

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XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVII. TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CLXXIV. EPITHALAMIUM.

Weep Venus, and ye
Adorable Three
Who Venus for ever environ.
Pounds, shillings, and pence
And shrewd sober sense
Have clapt the strait waistcoat on ---
Off Mainot and Turk
With pistol and dirk,
Nor palace nor pinnace set fire on

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The cord's fatal jerk
Has done its last work
And the noose is now slipped upon ---